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I just recieved my copy in the mail right before work. I did a quick glance through and my first impression is it is NOT worth the $130 I paid, probably about $30. There is some cool art in there but I was expecting a lot more for the money.

The review is abotu 20 minutes long, so I have it split into 2 parts. But I go through page by page so you guys get an idea of what's inside. This way you guys can make a better decision on if it's something you want to invest in or not.

I'm very grateful for Prometheus, River and Pixel Dan for taking the time to review this book and actually letting all of us access to what's inside. If I were at SDCC, I would've bought two. Still, it is not worth that $50 price tag. All I really wanted was an opportunity to see its contents. Now that I have, I really don't care about it and can live happily without this book. Thanks for wasting the trees for this disappointment and the fans' money on Ebay, Mattel. If there's a volume two, is it going to be 25 pages for $40 and limited to 500 copies?

nice review. the book isnīt indeed worth 50$ put aside 120$ on ebay.
It has some nice content, in terms of early concept sketches, future sketches and mostly the oil paintings.
Tell me Pixel Dan the book only contains the oil paintings you showed us in your review?

As for the future and maybe possible movie designs, I think they look pretty nice, i just dont like that type of "rocks" on the back of the Beastman concept, if the movie characters were to get this approach in terms of design I wouldnīt mind it and I am very critic when it comes to movie designs, but I guess the two new TF movies got me used to accept these updated designs, at first I just thought they were awfull, and know I kinda like them.

Great review! As much as I love He-Man & the MOTU, I'm too lazy to put that much effort into a video review. That you find the time & energy to do so on a regular basis, you deserve big props!

Originally Posted by mistaloko

As for the future and maybe possible movie designs, I think they look pretty nice, i just dont like that type of "rocks" on the back of the Beastman concept, if the movie characters were to get this approach in terms of design I wouldnīt mind it and I am very critic when it comes to movie designs, but I guess the two new TF movies got me used to accept these updated designs, at first I just thought they were awfull, and know I kinda like them.

I'm not big on the MOTU movie designs, but they didn't seem as bad, imho, as the "updates" made for the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies. At least I could still see a little of the original characters in them. If they go with the Sorceress design, the movie might have to be R-rated.

Krueger- Part 2 is uploading right now. For some reason, YouTube kicks rejecting that upload. Hopefully it goes through this time. (3rd attempt). That's aprt of the reason I prefer blip, but I understand that many people use YouTube, which is why my videos go there to.

He-Lurker- Thanks for the info. I'll have to see if I can figure that out in my editing software. Although, I'm kind og wondering if that's actually my video, or just a result of the compression and conversion to Flash afte rI upload it. I'll have to look into it.

If they wanted to nail it, there should been 53 pages of oil paintings, one on each page with a little text underneath. So this book have like 3 of those pages. FAIL! Actually I'm not so keen to have it anymore, there's so few cool pictures and new stuff are basicly the movie part.

Krueger- Part 2 is uploading right now. For some reason, YouTube kicks rejecting that upload. Hopefully it goes through this time. (3rd attempt). That's aprt of the reason I prefer blip, but I understand that many people use YouTube, which is why my videos go there to.

I really like that alternate He-Man design in the 200x section with the black armor. Would have loved to have seen that as Horde Armor or something.

As for the movie designs, I personally think a lot of them are cool, but none of them are really MotU at all. It's the kind of thing a lot of movie adaptations of anything always screw up for some reason.

As for the movie designs, I personally think a lot of them are cool, but none of them are really MotU at all. It's the kind of thing a lot of movie adaptations of anything always screw up for some reason.

For some of us that remember the original versions of these characters, such as Motuc, Transformers and so on, I think itīs quite hard to like these new movie updated versions.

But thinking about it, if the oldschool versions would be brought to the cinema (of course the people who hold these characters dearly, such as collectors and fans alike) would be extremely happy to see their classic character with his/her classic design made it to cinema. But the other public who just want to see a cool movie may be more atracted and prefer these updated versions as they are more flashy (i dont know if itīs the right word) and modern.

And when I saw Pixel Danīs video review I was quite impressed with that new concept designs, I liked them the first moment I saw them.

With the Transformers as Iīve said before I am used to them and grow to like them, now with these new Motu character designs they all look pretty good, that Sorceress is great and Skeletor looks awesome too.

I liked Pixel Dan's review and am happy with seeing it there. I don't feel that the book is worth more than $30.00. I would say at the most 25.00. I saw it and I'm satisfied. Would not pay the money to have my own. Glad I did not resort to ebay